horse-head

Questions about horse-head

What does horse-head mean?

horse-head means "any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies".

How many syllables are in horse-head?

horse-head has 4 syllables: hor-se--he-ad. The stress falls on "se-".

What is another word for horse-head?

Close synonyms include moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, dollarfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse-head a common word?

horse-head is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.